In this chapter, you will learn the most important concepts about the AWS global infrastructure, and by the end of this chapter, you will be able to design highly available and resilient solutions in the cloud using multiple data centers, replicate data to a second region to perform backups and disaster recovery, and understand the trade-offs associated with the election of a geographic region. You will create a web app and deploy it using a content delivery network (CDN) with CloudFront, and manage the hosted zone in Route 53. You will also work with the AWS and S3 low-level API CLIs, and you will understand the consistency model and the security aspects of encryption of data at rest and in transit.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Introducing AWS global infrastructure
- Single-region/multi-region patterns
- Global CDN
- Data...